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Topic: Coronavirus

Coronavirus or Covid-19 is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It is a viral disease that turned into a pandemic in early 2020. The first known case was recorded in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Coronavirus has multiple variants such as Delta and Omicron, and its most common symptoms are fever, chills and sore throat.

How to reduce risk of indoor Covid transmission? MIT online app has some answers

Mohana Basu -
According to study by MIT researchers, masks are more important in closed, poorly-ventilated rooms than social distancing to reduce transmission risk.

Modi govt holds out on Beijing offer for Covid help, but no trade bar on private firms

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Chinese government has offered to help India as it grapples with a devastating second Covid wave, which has seen the country record over 3 lakh cases daily for a week.

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot isolates himself after wife tests positive for Covid

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Gehlot said he will be in isolation as a precautionary measure and will hold daily review meeting with doctors and officers at 8.30 pm.

More people died of Covid in Delhi in last 4 days than in Mumbai since March

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Delhi has been reporting a high number of daily Covid cases and its test positivity is nearly 33 per cent, compared to Mumbai’s 13 per cent.

Delhi HC asks insurance companies to reduce delay in processing claims of Covid patients

Apoorva Mandhani -
Two benches of the Delhi High Court took note of delays in the issuance of no-objection certificates for Covid patients by insurance companies that are needed for discharge.

BJP, EC have ‘blood of Covid patients on their hands’, says Trinamool Congress

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TMC MP Sougata Roy says PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah addressed poll rallies despite a surge in Covid cases.

EC’s ‘too little, too late’ decision, and India’s ‘Kafkaesque’ reality

Yimkumla Longkumer -
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‘Indian strain’ of coronavirus found in 17 countries, says WHO

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The B.1.617 variant of SARS-CoV-2, feared to be contributing to a surge in coronavirus cases in the country, has been designated as the Variants of Interest (VOI) by the WHO.

Tocilizumab is nowhere to be found, and no one seems to know of next availability

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States like Delhi, Maharashtra, Chandigarh, Kerala and Chhattisgarh have complained of acute shortage of tocilizumab. The drug is used to treat Covid and rheumatoid arthritis.

It appears Centre wants people to die, says Delhi HC on new protocol on remdesivir use

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The high court said that the Centre was changing the protocol to reduce the shortage of remdesivir, adding that it was a 'complete mismanagement'.
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